New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-20

preaching. After awhile he settled
down quietly at a whist table III the
distance and they gave themselv up.
with reckless gaiety to the enjoyment
of the evening. Another hour passed
and support time came, and still they
danced or fingered in the quiet hooks,
and managed successfully to elude the
eyes whose recognition was SO to be
avoided.
What comfort it is THAT he is
such q maypole, and may be observed
from affair."" laughed the girl, who had
caught the Infection OF her lovers
audaclty.
AT length the dreaded time for part
ing was at hand The early morning
train was to bear away the lady to
her fathers summer residence, and
thus to separate for awhile the newly
plighted pair. What wonder, that in
those last few precious moments they
foreot all precautions, and saw and
heard nothing in each others alien
crossing presence? He followed her
to the hall, and folded the shawl care.
fully around her graceful form; for
another happy moment yet he stood
with her hand locked in his, meeting
all her heart shipping out through her
deep blue eyes. Then the carriage
door closed with q sharp bang, which
struck cold and heavy on his ear, as
the rolling wheels bore her away into
the night -~.-.-....
Perhaps his eyes were somewhat
dazzled by the bright, parting glance
he had drunk in SO eagerly, for all
other things around looked dim.
Presently he turned listlessly to take
his hat and depart in his turn still
feeling like one who dreams. Sudden
", however, something impelled him
to look up, and what was his dismay
when he found himself face to face
With-the colonel. 49, ,-.s
There was a crowd of departing
guests in the hall, and as they gather
ed and hustled each other, the two
men who had been thus Unexpectedly
brought together were again borne
apart. The recognition was instan-
taneous therefore, and in another mo-
ment the junior officer had contrived
to mingle with and disappear in the
crowd. But by the stern, astonished
gaze which had met his eye for that
brief instant, he knew that he had
been identified, and that the colonel
fully remembered where he ought to
have been.
II he still ventured to retain any
hope that the recognition had not
been complete, such hopewas prompt
" dispelled by the order which pres
emily rang out in ominous tones from
the colonies well-known voice of thun-
der.
'tDriye to the Royal Bank instant.
ly' it said with awful distinctness.
"And go as fast as you cam
Capt. Kendall had managed to slip
unobserved through the doorway, and
he now stood in the street.
What was to be done? The car
riages that were in waiting there were
all private ones. The hackney coach,
es were far down the file and even had
he been lucky enough to secure one in
time, the rattle Of thu wheels at that
hour OF the night speeding in the same
direction as the colonel's carriage, or
indeed the very fact Of a vehicle stop
ping before the bank would have con-
victed him at once. There was not g.
moment to be lost.
At this crisis, fortunately, his wits
did not forsake him. "A sudden in
SEPARATION presented itself to his mind,
and his decision was taken in a twink
ling. Favored by the opportune dark
ness he crept round to the back of the
colonel's carriage, and, just as
it was starting, he sprang up nimbly
on the step behind. The coachman
whipped up his horses ratified his
wheels through the still streets of the
sleeping city, clearing the distance in
double quick time, in order to fore
stall the return Of the delinquent
officer. Neither master nor man guess
ed that their hot haste was bearing
back the truant to his post.
Within the carriage the colonel sat
stiff and erect, as became a worthy
disciplinarian, wholly intent on the
conviction Of his peccant junior, in
whose impending discontinue he
could not help feeling q grim and
righteous satisfaction. At the back,
the captain sat crouching on the step,
desperately concerning his measures.
'Impudence!stand my friend through
this scrape,' he mentally CALCULATED.
Perhaps all is not lost yet" When
the carriage turned into - street and
the bank appeared in view, he jumped
lightly down and ran to the small
wicket gate in the lane. Most luckily
he had taken the key with him, and
hurriedly letting himself in, he passed
swiftly through the court, and came
up with the sentinel inside the great
gate, while the carriage was taking
the longer curve, which led up to the
front. How ne blessed the chance I'M
pulse which had induced him to take
that key!
.'The colonel's there" he said
breathlessly. Don't be too quick in
und Icing the CHAIN. Give ME as long
as you can. And say, Dickson" he
added anx1ously, NUNS the word,
YOU knoW-if YOU car.